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HOLDER POR BYBGLASSES. No. 392,367. Patented Nov. 6,188.8.

@Mireia SAMUEL V. SAXTON,

HO LDE R' FOR OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

EYEG LASS ES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,367, dated November6, 1888.

Application iilcd May 14, 188B.

Serial No. 273.789. (No mmlelJ To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that l, SAMUEL W. SAXTON, of New York, inthe count-y andState Vof New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvementin Holders for Eyeglasses, of which the following'is aspecification.

I wil-l describe an eyeglass-holder embodying my improvement, and thenpoint out th various` novel features in claims.

In the accompanying drawings, lligurel l is a side view of aneyeglassholder embodying my improvement. In this ligure the device isrepresented as being inserted in the fabric of a garment. Fig. 2 isanother side view of the holder. In this figurethe device is shown ascompletely attached to the fabric of a garment. Fig. 3 is a front Viewof the holder. Fig. 4 is a sectional view, the section being taken asindicated by the dotted line x x, Fig. 3. I

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

A designates a bar or base-piece.

B designates a hook secured at the lower end to the bar or base-piece Aand extended upwardly. Near the free end this hook extends close to thebar or base'piece. The loop of a pair of eyeglasses may be slipped overthe free end of thehook. It will then be prevented from being slippedoff without considerable force being exerted, because of the extensionof the free end portion of the hook close to the bar or base-piece. Thehook B therefore constitutes a retaining device for an eyeglass.

The bar or base-piece may be made of any desired shape. In effect it ismerely the shank of the hook, and is herein termed a bar or base-piece7merely to distinguish it from the hook proper.

G designates a pin, shown as rigidly secured to the upper end of the baror base-piece and extended rearwardly and downwardly therefrom. Its freeend is bent slightly rearward as compared with its main portion.

D designates a pin which at one end extends into a cavity arrangedlongitudinally in the lower portion of the bar or base-piece. Be-

low the bar or base-piece this pin D is extended rearwardly andupwardly. At the free end it extends slightly rearwardly. The pin D iscapable of a sliding movement lengthwise ofthe bar o1base-piece. Aspring, E, arranged ,within the cavity ofthe bar or base-piece andbetween the bottom thereof and a head upon the end of the pin which litswithin the cavity, u

normally maintains the pin in the position in vwhich it is shown in Fig.2. The pin D can be drawn downwardly or the bar or base-piece upwardly,so that this pin and the bar or basepiece will occupy the relationillustrated in Fig. 1.

Thev pin D is so bent at the free end that when it occupies its normalposition, as shown in'Fig. 2, its free end will extend rearwardly beyondthe free end of the pin C. This relation between the free ends of thetwo pins is of importance.

The end of the pin D which is within the cavity of the bar or base-piecemay be provided with a head of polygonal form, and the said cavity maybe polygonal, so as to prevent the pin from rotating axially withrespect to the bar or base-piece. The spring E may be a spiral springcoiled around the pin D between its head and the bottom of the cavity inthe bar or basepiece. v

I have shown the bow of the hook as provided with an eye, I), to which achain or cord attached to an eyeglass or pair of eyeglasses may besecured.

It will be seen that the hook B and the pins O D are approximately inline, or, in other words, approxiniatelyin the same plane.

The device which I have described is applied to the fabric of a garmentby taking the device in the hand with the free end ot the hook uppermostand moving it upwardly with the point of the pin D inserted in thefabric of the garment. The device will be moved upwardly far enough toslide the bar or basepiece lengthwise of a portion of the pin D which iswithin the cavity in the bar or basepiece. When the bar or base-pieceisslid up far enough, the device is pressed backwardly, so that the freeend or point of the pin O may be inserted in the fabric of the garment.Then the device is either let go or pressed downwardly, so as to causethe pin O to be inserted into the fabric of the garment up to the bentportion.` During this downward movement of the device the bar orbase-piece will slide downwardly along the portion of the pin D IOOwhich is within it. The two pins will then securely fasten the device tothe fabric of the garment.

It is advantageous to have that pin which is rigidly connected to thebar or base-piece located at the upper end of the latter, because thestrains transmitted to the device will be downwardly and will not tendto disengage the device when they will be transmitted to thc pin whichis rigidly secured to the bar or basepiece. As there will be littleliability ofstrains in an upward direction being transmitted to the baror base-piece,it is desirable to have the pin,which has a yieldingconnection with the har or hase-pieee, located at the lower end of thelatter.

It is advantageous to extend the free end or point ofthe pin D rearwardof the free end or pointofthepinC,becausethelatterwilluotthen interferewith the insertion of thepoiut of the pin D into the fabric of agarment. Moreover, the free end or point of the pin D, when extendedrearwardly of the free end or point of the pin C, will not be apt toengage with the fabric of the garment when the device is moved upwardlyto disengage the pin C from the garment. It will be readily understoodthat the disengagement of the device from the garment is effected by anupward movement suicient to disengage the pin C, and subsequently by adownward movement serving to disengage the pin D from the fabric ofthegar ment.

XVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is- A.

l. In an eyeglass-holder, the combination, with a bar or base-piece, ofa pin rigidly secured to the upper end of the bar or base-piece andextending rearwardly and downwardly, another pin having a slidingconnection lengthwise of the bar or hasepieee and extending rearwardlyand upwardly, a spring for moving the last-mentioned pin in onedirection, and a retaining device upon the bar or basepiece,substantially as specified.

2. In an eyeglassholder, the combination of a bar or base-piece havingat the fronta hook with its free end extended upwardly, a pin rigidlysecured to the upper end ofthe bar or basepiece and extending rearwardlyand downwardly, another pin extending within the bar or basepiece, and aspring within the bar or base-piece and surrounding the pin last namedaud causing the movement 0f said piu in one direction, substantially asspecified.

SAM. W. SAXTON.

Vitnesses:

FREDK. IIAYNns, Jos. XV. Ron.

